Cyphastrea skull experiment

Kingsley_Reef · Feb 8, 2020

yan2pr said:
Wow thats really cool, are those skulls ceramic or are you guys using some other material?

Mine is ceramic got it from salty ceramics @vicefire17 is using glass

vicefire17 · Feb 9, 2020

VB313 said:
Mine is ceramic got it from salty ceramics @vicefire17 is using glass

They were shot glasses I found on Amazon.
Here’s the photo of the leptastrea. It started to plate outward for some reason.

D1LBERT · Apr 17, 2021

VB313 said:
almost 4 month update I’ve been testing alk with a Hanna checker regularly And dosing kent dkh to keep my dkh around 8-9 and target feeding reef roids once a week....It’s happening! I’ve seen large improvement over the last month

How did this end??? Did it fully encrust?

Kingsley_Reef · Apr 17, 2021

Got this far and unfortunately ended in a tragic alk swing in August during vacation lost all sps. Will be trying again as soon as i can get my hands on another meteor shower Cyphastrea

D1LBERT · Apr 17, 2021

VB313 said:
Got this far and unfortunately ended in a tragic alk swing in August during vacation lost all sps. Will be trying again as soon as i can get my hands on another meteor shower Cyphastrea

Awe, I'm sorry to hear that. Definitely looked cool and the concept is worth playing around with. I got on to this old thread because I don't understand how people leave encrusting corals in frag plugs... Imo, it just looks so bad once it's wrapped around the round plug. Why aren't people doing it differently? Why aren't encrusting plugs with different shapes more widely used???

Kingsley_Reef · Apr 17, 2021

D1LBERT said:
Awe, I'm sorry to hear that. Definitely looked cool and the concept is worth playing around with. I got on to this old thread because I don't understand how people leave encrusting corals in frag plugs... Imo, it just looks so bad once it's wrapped around the round plug. Why aren't people doing it differently? Why aren't encrusting plugs with different shapes more widely used???

Well spoiler alert I have a deep blue 36 frag tank I’m slowly building I plan to dedicate mostly to experimenting with encrusting corals

ReeferRayl · Apr 17, 2021

Just saw this pop up.... I have a life size resin skull encrusting out with Bizarro Cyphastrea. I started with the frag plug on the top of the head and after encrusting out approx. 1/2” on to the skull I will pop the frag plug off and move to a different location. This definitely helps speed up the encrusting process!
Good luck to you with your experimentation with encrusters!!!